The Roosevelt Institution
School: Stanford University
Member of:
Center on the Environment and Energy
Max Felsher is a senior in Earth Systems following the Anthrosphere (policy) track. He is particularly excited by social issues relating to the environment, which may include environmental justice and other ways in which that thing we call “the environment” mediates our ideas of race, gender, class, and whatever other distinctions happen to be important at any place and time. His interest in the environment dates back to his childhood in the Boston area, but it has only been since coming to Stanford that environmentalism has become a major focus of his work. As a junior studying abroad in Australia, he conducted a small four-week study on the availability of environmental information to food consumers and the interest those consumers had in learning more about the environmental impacts of their food. In addition, he has been a member of Students for Environmental justice At Stanford (SEAS) and an intern for The Green Life, a non-profit organization providing information about sustainable living and greenwashing on the Web. As for the obligatory “non-academic” part of this bio: he enjoys playing FreeCell on his computer, talking to his girlfriend (a senior in Environmental Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill), and eating the delectable treats that people in his student house make for no apparent reason but to soothe his soul.